For a very different SCOTUS short list...

be sure to check out this segment, titled "Supreme Court Choices You Haven't Heard Of," from NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." Among the names I heard on the NPR nominee list of choices I had not heard was my co-author Nora Demleitner, who is now Dean at Hofstra University School of Law.  Awesome!

I would be very surprised (and very pleasantly surprised) if Nora was named to the Supreme Court now, in part because she is still very young.  But I am sure she would be a fantastic jurist and it would be really nice and valuable to have someone on the Court who knows a lot about sentencing law and policy.  Notably, Newsday noticed Nora's name on NPR's novel short list, so maybe she will start getting even more buzz soon.

Meanwhile, I am wondering if and when we might get a nominee this week from the White House.  I would really like to be able to transition from all the speculations to in-depth examination of an actual nominee, but I am fearing we still may have a while to wait.

Some prior posts on SCOTUS personnel:

• "For the Supreme Court, Younger Isn’t Necessarily Better"
• An op-ed call for a district judge to become a Justice
• Is career diversity a bad thing in the highest court in the land?
• "The last thing the Supreme Court needs: Another judge"
• Insider myopia and the diverse benefits of a short bench
• Thinking creatively about different SCOTUS short lists
• Does SCOTUS need a trial judge?
• Developing a SCOTUS short list of district court judges
• Brave New Justice and sentencing issues